Deleting A Virtual Drive; Deleting A Virtual Drive Group; Expanding A Virtual Drive - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual
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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Figure 52 Create Virtual Drive- Advanced
You can view the virtual drive policies that were defined when the storage configuration was created.
You can also select Initialize and/or Configure Hot Spare to initialize the newly created virtual drive or to
configure the virtual drive as a hot spare, respectively.
If you select Initialize and/or Configure Hot Spare, messages pertaining to initializing the virtual drive or to
configuring the virtual drive as a hot spare appear only after you exit the Virtual Drive Properties dialog.
4.13.4
Deleting a Virtual Drive
You can delete any virtual drive on the controller if you want to reuse that space for a new virtual drive. The Ctrl-R
Utility lists configurable drive groups where there is space to configure. If multiple virtual drives are defined on a
single drive group, you can delete a virtual drive without deleting the entire drive group.
Perform the following steps to delete a virtual drive:
1.
In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to the virtual drive, and press the F2 key.
2.
Navigate to Delete VD, and press Enter.
A message box appears, asking you to confirm the deletion.
3.
Press OK to delete the virtual drive.
4.13.5
Deleting a Virtual Drive Group
You can delete a virtual drive group. On deleting a drive group, all the virtual drives in that drive group also are
deleted.
Perform the following steps to delete a drive group:
1.
In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a drive group, and press the F2 key.
2.
Navigate to Delete Drive Group, and press Enter.
The drive group is deleted and is removed from the VD Mgmt screen.
4.13.6
Expanding a Virtual Drive
You can increase the size of a virtual drive to occupy the remaining capacity in a drive group.
CAUTION
Back up any data that you want to keep before you delete a virtual
drive
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Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility
Viewing and Changing Device Properties
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